Marvel: The Imposter Inventor

Chapter 143 Villa? War Fortress! (Third Update)
"I will have Sherry's team cooperate with Osborn Biopharmaceuticals on the development of the new drug. I have already reached an agreement with Mr. Norman on this matter. You just need to take care of some of the formalities."

“We can leave the more complicated matters to Osborne; they will use their connections in this area to pave the way for us.”

"Let's put the remaining medical robot projects on hold for now. There's no rush. We can take it one step at a time."

"That's all. Just report back to me if anything else comes up."

After hanging up the phone, Luca casually tossed his phone aside, picked up his Hello again, and leaned back lazily in his chair.

Samira, who was driving ahead, asked curiously after Luca hung up the phone.

"Was Young Master just talking to Miss Lena? How did she sound to you?"

Samira asked this question because Luca, the new secretary, was hired on her recommendation.

Samira herself was not good at this kind of work, and she was worried that the candidates she found by looking at resumes would not meet Luca's requirements.

Luca had nothing to hide from Samira, so he simply told her the truth.

"Her abilities are indeed impeccable, but I'm still a bit unsure about her identity and purpose in coming to the company."

Upon hearing Luca's words, Samira was taken aback at first, and then almost stepped on the gas and ran a red light.

After a moment's realization, he asked in a serious tone.

"Young Master, are you saying that Lena Peterson is a spy sent to the company by someone else?"

If that were the case, it would be a major blunder by Samira, and her voice immediately turned cold.

"Should I kill her? Or have Wrenchman stage an accident for her?"

Seeing Samira's serious expression, Luca smiled and waved his hands repeatedly.

"Drive carefully, don't be so nervous. I just said it's possible."

"Young Master, in such matters, it's better to kill the innocent than the guilty."

"There's no need for that. She doesn't have access to any core secrets right now, and her abilities are quite good. Even if she was sent by someone else, using her for the time being will save a lot of trouble."

"Should I have someone investigate her background?"

"No need, let's leave it here for now and see."

During their back-and-forth conversation, Luca temporarily put the matter aside.

Actually, he had some suspicions that this Rena might be someone sent by Hydra. However, rather than eliminating her or investigating her to the point of alarming Hydra, he preferred to keep her under his nose and pretend he knew nothing.

This would allow them to distance themselves from Hydra while still utilizing its resources to a limited extent.

why not?

However, in reality, Luca might be overthinking things.

Hydra's advantages are not so easy to come by.

When Samira drove Luca back to the Connecticut villa.

I immediately sensed that something was off about the atmosphere in the entire villa.

It's already quite late.

But it's far from being late at night.

Logically speaking, although Green Bull and Longbow served as his bodyguards at the party, it was impossible for the remaining Shield Mountain and Thresh to be asleep so early.

However, the villa was completely silent at this moment. Even though both cars drove into the garden, no one came out of the room.

"Young Master, something seems amiss!"

The very cautious Samira had already stopped the car and was no longer driving towards the underground garage. She reached for the box of universal capsules that Luca had given her.

Even Green Bull and Longbow, who were following behind, got through on the phone and reported to Luca, "Young Master, I just contacted the captain, but there's been no response from him!"

"The signal seems to be blocked here!"

At this moment, Luca, who had been dozing off in the back seat while holding Haro, immediately woke up a bit, frowned slightly, and quickly spoke up to stop the other three from talking.

"Don't worry."

As he spoke, Luca pressed the temple of the [tracking glasses] and switched it to thermal imaging mode.

It doesn't matter if you look at it.

Under thermal imaging, it was discovered that his own villa was densely packed with more than twenty fully armed soldiers.

Only the room on the third floor where Gina was located was free of outsiders.

In contrast, in the living room, there were not only seven or eight soldiers holding guns, but also two people who were tied up and thrown in a corner, and the only person who seemed to be unarmed was sitting on the living room sofa.

"Damn it, they've come to our doorstep? Do they think I'm made of clay?"

"Hello! Remotely connect to Hakimi! Deploy the villa defense system! Level A defense mode!!"

As soon as Luca finished speaking, the orange Haro in his arms began to flash red light in its eyes, instantly connecting to the super AI in the villa, and its voice became very different from usual.

"Connected to Hakimi, initiating Level A defense mode!"

"Report, report! The detection system previously encountered an electromagnetic pulse, and 40% of the defensive armament was damaged and cannot be deployed. An external program is attacking the laboratory's main server. Currently, the main server's damage level is 0%."

"Stop talking nonsense, activate defense mode! Activate as many as you can!"

"Hakimi understands!"

With Hakimi's "Understood," a series of clicking machine noises echoed throughout the villa.

Immediately afterwards, machine gun emplacements and laser beams sprang up from the ground.

Inside the flower beds in the villa's courtyard, and within the wall surrounding the main gate.

Inside the villa, there's an inconspicuous desk and low cabinet in the corner of the ceiling.

Countless menacing cannon muzzles were exposed.

From the underground laboratory, more than a dozen Haro robots of various colors, piloting 'auxiliary repair mechs' and wielding guns, rushed out.

Shouting "Hello, attack! Hello, attack!", they surged up to the upper ground.

In an instant, the once ordinary residential villa was transformed into a sophisticated and dangerous war fortress.

Those 'hidden' inside the villa immediately let out a series of exclamations.

The beeping sounds of aiming and locking on blended together.

The monitoring system on the car seat in front of Luca showed that each intruder was being assigned to more than one gun.

After a few sporadic gunshots, several screams followed.

Luca, on the other hand, simply pushed open the car door and tossed out a multi-purpose capsule.

With a 'bang', the black and white husky-themed mecha appeared on the ground.

Not only Luca, but also Samira and the other two pressed their own universal capsules, and in a short while, they were all fully armed.

As the noise in the villa gradually subsided, Luca stepped out of the car, a fierce glint flashing in his eyes, and coldly gave the order.

"Let's go, I want to see who's so blind as to dare to come here and cause trouble."

(End of this chapter)